Question

1
select the correct answer.
read the excerpt from the text.
(4) each day they got worse: soon it became clear that mere adjectives could not convey any idea of their terrors. therefore i devised a mosquito gauge. i held up a bare hand for 5 seconds by the watch, then counted the number of borers on the back; there were 5 to 10. each day added to the number; and when we got out to the buffalo country, there were 15 to 25 on the one side of the hand and elsewhere in proportion.
how does this paragraph further develop the authors idea about the northern territory mosquitoes?
a. he explains how the mosquitoes terrorized him and his crew during their field studies.
b. by using his gauge, he shows how swarming the mosquitoes are as they travel north.
c. he describes a gauge he developed in order to track the speed of the mosquitoes.
d. the author is directly contrasting his data with dr. howards new jersey data.

the arctic prairies: a canoe journey
by ernest thompson seton
chapter ix
mas seton was a british author and wildlife artist and one of the members of the boy scouts of america. he later moved to in canada, where he published a number of books about the and its wildlife. in this excerpt, seton describes his experience osquitoes at his camp on a lake in the northwest territories of

1. howard¹ tells us that the mosquito rarely goes far from its

. that must refer to the miserable degenerates² they have in new
these of the north offer endless evidence of power to travel, as
resist cold and wind.
ly 21, 1907, we camped on a small island on a lake. it was about
ter mile long, several miles from mainland, at least half a mile from
sland, apparently all rock, and yet it was swarming with
es. here, as elsewhere, they were mad for our blood; those we
off and maimed, would crawl up with sprained wings and twisted
ing as fiercely as ever, as long as the beak would work.
ought the stinging pests of the buffalo country as bad as possible,
proved mild and scarce compared with those we yet had to meet
barrens of our ultimate goal.

Explanation:

The paragraph details the author's self-made mosquito gauge to count bites over time, showing the number of mosquitoes increases (from 5-10 to 15-25 per 5 seconds) as they travel north, quantifying how swarming the mosquitoes become. Option A is incorrect because the focus is on measuring mosquito density, not terrorizing behavior. Option C is wrong because the gauge tracks mosquito abundance, not speed. Option D is incorrect as there is no direct contrast with Dr. Howard's data in this specific paragraph.

Answer:

B. By using his gauge, he shows how swarming the mosquitoes are as they travel north.